Iron polisher and support



(No Model.)

W. R. FBARN. IRON POLISHBR AND SUPPORT.'

No. 580,263. atented Apr. 6, 1897.

WW @Jail/gy IVILLIAM R. FEARN, OF CAMDEN,

PATENT Cerros,

NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO L. R.

SCIIIVERIN, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

lRON POLISHER AND SUPPORT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 580,263, dated April 6, 1897.

Application filed April 20, 1896.

T0 all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM R. FEARN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Camden, in the county of Camden and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Iron Polishers and Supports, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a new and useful improvement in sad-iron polishers and supports, and has for its object to provide a device of this description which will combine with a perfect support for the iron a polishing-surface by means of which the operatingsurface of the iron may be kept in condition for proper operation upon the articles to be ironed.

With these ends in view my invention consists in the details of construction and combination of elements hereinafter set forth, and then specifically designated by the claims.

In order thatl those skilled in the art to which this invention appertains may understand how to make and use the same, I will describe its construction and operation in detail, referring by letter to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and in which- Figure l is a perspective of my improvement, showing it secured to an ironing-board or table and supporting a sad-iron; and Fig. 2, a cross-section of the device, illustrating the method of clamping the polishing-surface and distending the clamps.

Referring to the drawings, A represents a rectangular piece of asbestos cloth having the clamps B secured along its opposite sides, and these clamps are preferably formed of single strips of metal, so bent as to embrace the sides of the fabric, and provided with lianges C, bent at right angles to the bodyof the clamps.

D is the distender, composed of a single length of wire so bent as to provide arms E, adapted to pass between the parallel sections of the clamps outside of the edges of the fabric, as clearly shown in Eig. 2, and the center of this wire is formed into a hook F, adapted to engage the edge of a table or ironing-board, as clearly shown in Fig. l. which the distender is made should be of suffi- The wire fromV Serial No. 588,352. (No model.)

cient resiliency to maintain a constant outward draft upon the fabric, so as to hold the latter taut. When it is desired to fold the device into a small compass, it is only necessary to withdraw the distender from the clamps, when the fabric may be rolled or otherwise reduced within a small compass. The distender is shown partially withdrawn from the clamps in dotted lines in Fig. l.

. In practice the device is placed upon the table or ironing-board, within easy access of the operator, and the upper surface of the fabric coated with wax or other suitable polishing substance, and when it is desiredto polish the face of the iron this is accomplished by moving it back and forth longitudinally over the surface of the fabric between the clamps, this position of the iron being shown in Fig. 2; and when it is necessary to support the iron, when not in use, it is placed cross.- wise of the device, so as to rest upon the flanges C, as illustrated in Fig. l.

One of the principal advantages of this improvement is that the asbestos fabric has a slight abrading effect upon the the face of the iron, and therefore removes all foreign substances and tends to burnish said face by the latter being moved back and forth thereon, and, as well known, a fabric composed of asbestos is an absorbent, and therefore will retain a large quantity of the polishing material when the latter has been applied in a liquid state, which is brought about, in the case of ordinary wax or paraflin, by the application of the hot iron to said material. Thus it will be seen that after the asbestos fabric becomes saturated with the polishing material the application of this material to the surface of the iron by the rubbing of the latter upon the fabric may be accomplished a number of times withoutv the application of new polishing material to the fabric, as the heat of the iron will draw the polishing material to the surface of the fabric after the manner of a wick feeding oil.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and useful isl. An iron polisher and support consisting of a section of asbestos cloth, clamps secured to the side edges thereof, Iianges formed with said clamps for the support of the iron out of IOO a hook for engagement with a table edge or the like and having parallel arms removably slidable in the metal strips, as and for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my signature in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

VILLIAM R. FEARN.

Vitnesses:

R. M. PIERCE, MARK BUFORD. 

